Slaughterhouse Five Section 2 (Part II)

One of the most frequently occurring images is time. Vonnegut repeatedly talks of time throughout the novel. Most of the time, the Tralfamadorians are the ones that provide deep insights about time. I think Vonnegut chose to use aliens as the mode of presenting these thoughts because this type of thinking is completely foreign to how humans think. One example of this is "All time is time....It just is (p.86)." Of course, this novel was written before Jurassic Park, but the part about bugs in amber reminds me of Jurassic Park. I think that is a very interesting way to think of this though. Just as the scientists were able to bring back species from the past, so does Billy's time work in this sense because he is capable of seeing any part of the time in his life. Additionally, the events of one's life are inevitable. I think this is significant because it links all of this logic about time and humans with war. Humans are like machines and their life is going to happen as it is destined to happen. Similarly, war will always occur because humans functions like machines making their actions inevitable.